Bruce Brown

Fixed!! I apparently got ahold of the right guy at Bluehost this time. Thanks so much, kmessinger! You helped me figure out the right things to tell Bluehost.

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BTW, Google Webmaster Tools says, “Currently, we haven’t detected any security issues with your site’s content.”

While on my home page and logged in as admin, using Firefox Tools/Web Developer/Web Console with JS selected, I get a very long list, including many items that say “Error in parsing value for… Declaration dropped.”

I admit, I don’t know what I’m looking at. You probably know by now that I know just enough to get myself in trouble. I only know enough about JS and PHP to know that I must never mess with them. So I never do.

Firefox, Opera, Safari on a Mac. Do I need to download Chrome?

Update. All traces of WP 2011 Theme are gone. One page and two posts were affected, but they’re OK now. Stuff seems to get better the longer I leave things alone. But a minor change to a page or post seems to take 18-30 hours. Still many pages & posts with outdated menus and no admin tool bar.

You mentioned a mod_lock security issue. I don’t know what that means. Is it something I should take to Bluehost?

Update

Changes and correct menu now appear on the home page, but still no admin bar.

The page that got taken over by WP Theme 2011 and which you can’t reach any more from the Home page’s mysteriously fixed menu (so here’s the link to that page) has changed. It appears to be using my custom CSS now, which it wasn’t doing before. The page’s menu is simply an unordered list without the Vantage theme’s CSS, and the menu is not the most recently saved version.

It’s starting to look like changes to some (not all) pages and posts just take a day or two to work their way from the back end to the front.

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Deactivated all plugins. Didn’t help. Reactivated.

Clicked “Error Logs” in “Statistics” section of my Bluehost cPanel. It gave me a log for the server hosting my site. My site’s IP address was at the top. I did a “find” in the log for my IP address. Showed no errors for my IP. Checked yesterday and twice today.

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Thanks for coming back, kmessinger. I appreciate it.

I’ve got about five pages and five posts that are problematic. My home page is one that’s messed up.

Here’s one that’s fine.

Notice the difference between their menus? Subs below About, Activism, and News on the Home page are old. The other page gets the menu right. And when I’m logged in, the home page and the other ones that are messed up have no admin bar. The good pages do, like they’re supposed to.

It’s starting to look like recently modified pages are more likely to be messed up, if that means anything. If you want to see something really weird, click the second item under “About” on the home page’s main menu. That’s the page I looked at when I checked to see if changing the theme would help. It didn’t, and I switched back. but now that page won’t go back to the way it was. Is that a clue?

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Update: It’s not the theme. When I changed to a different theme, pages that have been fine all along loaded with the new theme. But my problem pages loaded with the old theme.

Some mysterious progress. A page I was having trouble with is now loading with a change I made two days ago, and the main menu and the sidebar on that page are now up to date. But it still doesn’t load the admin menu bar. Just to check, I saved two very small changes to that page. Those changes don’t appear.

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I’m starting to think my theme got messed up. I do a “live preview” using a different theme and it shows the updated home page text.

I’m using Vantage from SiteOrigin. Not using bells, whistles, sliders, etc. Just clean & simple. No commerce either. But lots of custom CSS. I went to their support forum. It says a reply can take days. The most recent reply came 7 days after the question was posted.

I hate the idea of making the site all hinky while I set up a new theme, but I’m getting desperate.

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OK, I just eliminated server errors. The error log was so huge because I’m on a shared server. But nothing in the error log matches my IP address.

Do I get to say YAY on that?

Thanks, kmessinger.

Got your message and went to Bluehost, found my error log. It’s huge and I don’t know what it means. So now I’m on their FAQ page learning about error logs. I may end up in a Bluehost live chat.

Thanks, jenwill & kmessinger.

I found that codex page in the middle of the night and went through it. Even had that w3c page-checker thingy look at code. etc, etc…

Show toolbar is checked. Most pages get the toolbar. It’s just the pages that refuse to update that don’t.

I’m going over all 160 posts & pages right now, trying to look for some kind of pattern, but it all looks completely random so far.

Thanks, but… Cache isn’t the problem. Thought of that too. I looked at the site with three different empty-cache browsers. I don’t pay a service for cache storage. None of my plugins – that I know of – store cache.

Yes. Clumsy, slower, inefficient, irritating. It wasn’t broke!

Went off without a hitch! Navigated the whole website, front & back, haven’t found glitch one.